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Topic	There's a loud foreigner living on my street in Japan >_>
sfcalimari 04/13/24 2:26:41 AM #11:	The Japanese categorize everyone as either Japanese or foreigner. Koreans do the same thing in South Korea. They do this because they are homogenous cultures that intentionally have very low levels of permanent immigration, but it means they have a real us versus them mentality. And a LOT of economic immigrants buy into it, and after a few weeks start categorizing people as "foreigners," whereas back home they'd refer to them as Chinese, African, French, whatever. --- "Tether even a roasted chicken." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo <cite>sfcalimari posted [p:979882998] in There's a ... [t:80745819]...</cite> <quote>The Japanese categorize everyone as either Japanese or foreigner. Koreans do the same thing in South Korea. They do this because they are homogenous cultures that intentionally have very low levels of permanent immigration, but it means they have a real us versus them mentality. And a LOT of economic immigrants buy into it, and after a few weeks start categorizing people as "foreigners," whereas back home they'd refer to them as Chinese, African, French, whatever. --- "Tether even a roasted chicken."- Yamamoto Tsunetomo</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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